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Newspaper
Morning Appeal
Location
Carson City, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1905
Page
3
Magnate Charles Schwab buys the old Copper King smelter near Martinez to process Tonopah district ore. C E Green confirms the transaction but provides no details. The smelter, once a $1,000,000 venture, shut down years ago and is now poised for modernization.
Two tanks of acetylene gas explode on the porch of the St Nicholas hotel in Goldfield Saturday evening. Windows shatter for a block in all directions. A man named McLeod is seriously injured. The east end of the hotel is wrecked and the first story demolished. The cause is unknown and the tanks were new and being installed. A ladder was hurled into the air and lodged on wires twenty feet up.
Camp James Lockett No 3 United States Spanish War Veterans elected officers Wednesday evening Commander Dr Von Radesky senior vice commander Arthur Meyers junior vice commander Henry Burlington chaplain Wallace Evans officer of the day James Cavanaugh officer of the guard Wm Bergman quartermaster Al Karge trustees Jack Graham Charles Stone and Chas Nuss Lang held to answer Em L Mims W H Lang and Emil Sutro recently arrested at Goldfield on embezzlement charges involving 5000 in stocks belonging to M D Farrington hearing held Mims and Sutro discharged Lang held to answer to the grand jury
Features of the program include a sketch from Pygmalion and Gala tea titled The Awakening of Galatea with Gladys Day and Gladys Hofer impersonating the characters. Little Nellie Brougher will perform a dramatic selection, showcasing her noted talent. Foreclosure action by Central Trust Co. on the Holmes mine mortgage in Candelaria Nevada for 127000 dollars. Two holdups by Ren thugs last night left one man robbed of 30 dollars and another 200 dollars. Meyers Mercant Co. reports arrival of a carload of choice Oregon apples.
The California Fish Commission informed Washoe County that the Verdi hatchery will be abandoned. California will rely on Nevada rainbow trout, produced under a new contract with Morrill & Elliott, who operate a Sierra hatchery southwest of Reno. California previously took half a million to a million trout annually from Truckee, with ten percent returned after reaching swimming stage.
Sacramento reports Governor Pardee commuted the sentence of George Baker at Folsom prison after prior statements by Thomas F. Gorman before his oath on the gallows in Nevada. The date mentioned is the 17th or last month.
Last evening Rev. B. J. Darneille departed for Arcata Cal where he will have charge of the Episcopal church in that thriving city. Many of his friends and admirers were at the train to say farewell as he had made more friends in this city during his residence than any one man. May your luck follow the dominie wherever he goes.
Tiffany Bender son of Dick Bender Indian police at the Indian School died yesterday at John Brown's home in this city. He was twenty four, a graduate of the Indian School, later completing a five year course at Carlisle. He worked in Mohawk Valley in trusted positions before returning here about a year ago. The funeral will be held this afternoon from the Indian School. he was a general favorite with instructors and pupils.
The mining revival spreads across Nevada with new properties in Piné Nut range and Como, including Zinn Schultz and Logan Hully, driving exploration and tunneling at Carters Station and across the river. Promising ore, high grade finds, and planned mills fuel optimism for a statewide boom.
The Esch Townsend bill, revived in the House, keeps 21 features of the prior proposal and adds publicity, plus explicit Interstate Commerce Commission jurisdiction over refrigeration terminal charges and private car operations. It aims to strengthen federal control to ensure fair treatment of carriers shippers producers and consumers.
Lee Craven plans to begin cutting ice today as the pond ice exceeds eight inches in thickness and quality. McEwen has already cut substantial ice, noted as particularly heavy. Current prospects suggest no shortage of the ice crop this season.
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